Top Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Dumbo Drive-by Shooting & Crown Heights Co-Living

Drive-by Shooting Rocks Brooklyn’s Most Expensive Neighborhood
Rival gang members released automatic weapon fire at Fulton Ferry Landing Sunday morning, according to reports given by the 84th Precinct Community Council at a meeting held Tuesday night. The spot straddles Dumbo and Brooklyn Heights.

Tour the 19-Bed Crown Heights House That’s Trying to Disrupt Brooklyn’s Rental Market
Would you pay $1,950 a month to co-live in a Crown Heights townhouse? The space at 1162 Pacific Street is the first co-living location launched by Common, a Brooklyn-based startup offering month-to-month rentals and an atmosphere of creative community.

Jimmy Kimmel Shoots Do the Right Thing Spoof in Park Slope
Jimmy Kimmel Live was spotted filming in Brooklyn last weekend. ABC’s late-night show host and native Brooklynite shot a spoof of Spike Lee’s 1989 classic Do the Right Thing in Park Slope this Saturday. Remaking 5th Avenue and 1st Street’s Two Boots into the film’s Sal’s Pizza, the crew had done little else to make the corner replicate the ’80s or Bed Stuy.

The Insider: A Brownstone With Polish, Not Pretension, in Prospect Heights
So apparently simple and refined is this Prospect Heights brownstone that you might not suspect it recently underwent an extensive renovation: the removal of a bearing wall to open up the parlor floor, necessitating a new steel beam from front to rear; all-new kitchen and baths; stripping all original woodwork; restoration of the ceiling plaster and moldings; new rift-sawn oak floors throughout; all-new electrical and central air; and many things you don’t see.

LICH Developer Fortis Publishes Renderings, Details of Controversial Plans
Mere days after developer Fortis said it’s considering building a 260,000-square-foot mega-dorm at the former Long Island College Hospital site, the firm has released renderings and details of its newly updated plans via a website, launched Tuesday. The site compares the two options Fortis is offering, both of them controversial and unwanted by the community.